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The Redeemer's tears wept over lost souls
The Redeemer's tears wept over lost souls Author:John Howe Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: APPENDIX. CONCERNING THE BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY Ghost; And How God is Said To Will The SALVATION OF THEM THAT PERISH. Because some things, not fi... more »t to be wholly omitted, were as little fit to come into the body of a practical discourse, it was thought requisite to subjoin here the following additions, that will, severally, have reference to distinct parts of the foregoing discourse. As to what was said, p. 104, of the unreasonableness, and ill consequence of admitting it to be any man's duty to believe himself utterly rejected, and forsaken of God, inasmuch as it would make that his duty which were repugnant to his felicity. This is to be evinced by a consideration, which also, even apart by itself, were not without its own great weight, namely, that such a belief were inconsistent with his former stated and known duty: it were therefore inconsistent with his felicity, inasmuch as it would make that duty impossible to be performed, which, before, was, by the constitution of the evangelical law, made necessary to it; namely, " Repentance towards God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ." The hope of acceptance is so necessary to both these, that the belief of a man's being finally rejected, or that he shall never be accepted, cannot but make them both impossible, equally impossible, as if he were actually in hell; as much impossible to him, as to the devils themselves. Nor is this impossibility, merely, from a moral impotency, or that obduration of heart which were confessedly vicious, and his great sin, but from the natural influence of that belief of his being for ever rejected, which, upon the mentioned supposition, were his duty. Besides, inasmuch as it is the known duty of a sinner under the gospel, " to turn to God through Christ," and it is also declared ...« less